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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Franchising: One of the Best Innovations Since the LLC with Robert Huntington: An EOFire Classic from 2022

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Robert Huntington is CEO of Metric Collective, a vertically integrated franchise and technology company. Before Metric he was a BCG consultant, teacher, 50M dollars P and L manager and franchise executive.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Once you've already proven that you can execute the model, that’s when you can start innovating the model.

2. If you have good union economics - if you have something that customers need - and the market is growing, then franchising can be a really attractive route.

3. Franchising means you’re in business for yourself - not by yourself.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire.

0:07.6

Brought to you by High Level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform.

0:11.6

On today's classic episode, we'll be breaking down one of the best innovations since the LLC.

0:17.1

To drop these via bombs, I brought to Robert Huntington into EO Fire Studios.

0:20.4

Robert is the CEO of Metric Collective.

0:23.2

And today we will be talking about once you prove you execute a model,

0:27.3

we start innovating that model.

0:28.9

And we talk about good union economics and being in business for yourself, not by yourself.

0:34.3

And oh, so much more.

0:35.4

And the big think of us sponsoring today's episode goes to

0:37.5

Robert and our sponsors. Are you ready for the ultimate all in one platform for entrepreneurs,

0:44.1

marketers, coaches and agencies, build funnels, automate follow-ups, manage clients, and even

0:49.8

white label your own software. Say hello to our featured partner High Level and visit

0:56.2

high level.com to start your free trial today. Robert, say what's up to Fire Nation and share

1:07.6

something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

1:13.4

Hey, John. Thank you for having me. Hello, Fire Nation. So I've been thinking about this question

1:18.3

in advance and struggled with coming up with something that I think is something I believe

1:24.7

that most don't. Here's my shot at it. So I think very few people are actually

1:30.7

successful. It hinges on the definition of successful, but like those who are satisfied, they have a

1:37.5

sense of well-being rather than just like a scorecard of a huge net worth or impact. And I think

1:43.7

going from it that route, I think the truly

1:46.9

successful are those who execute against whatever intrinsically motivates them, whatever that

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